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PARIS (Reuters) - Samantha Stosur won her first match at the French Open on Monday with five stitches in her leg after misjudging a jump in the gym. The Australian, winner of the U.S. Open in 2011, played with heavy strapping on her leg against Puerto Rico's Monica Puig but she showed few signs of discomfort in a 6-1 6-1 victory. "I had an accident in the gym on Wednesday night and cut my leg pretty bad. I've got a guard on there so that if I hit myself it's not going to hurt so bad," Stosur said.

SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested 16 current and former Puerto Rican police officers on corruption charges ranging from allegedly taking bribes to protect drug dealers to extortion and planting evidence, officials said on Thursday. Many of the officers belong to a drug-fighting unit in Puerto Rico's police department, said Carlos Cases, an FBI special agent. Cases said the officers allegedly operated like a criminal gang, using their guns and badges to commit robbery, extortion and illegal narcotics sales.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - UBS AG has been sued by older investors who claimed it steered them into mutual funds that invested heavily in Puerto Rico bonds, costing much of their life savings and causing billions of dollars of losses because of the commonwealth's fiscal woes. According to a complaint made public on Tuesday, UBS viewed the 23 closed-end funds as "cash cows," generating tens of millions of dollars of extra fees by stuffing them with Puerto Rico government bonds it underwrote, and which it should have known were risky given the economy's instability.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is forming a new unit to monitor the municipal bond market, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a Treasury official. By boosting the department's monitoring of municipal finance, the Treasury hopes to better understand the ramifications of municipal-market stresses, the newspaper quoted the official as saying. The unit, which will be headed by a veteran public-finance banker at JP Morgan Chase , will also track state and local pensions as well as the financing of bridges, roads and other infrastructure projects, the Journal said.

(Reuters) - The price of Puerto Rico's newest bonds fell again on Monday, underperforming the wider municipal bond market to notch their lowest session-ending price since their debut a month ago. The bonds, maturing in July 2035 and sporting a coupon of 8 percent, last traded at 87.75 cents on the dollar, pushing the yield up to 9.33 percent. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. Puerto Rico, mired in a lengthy recession and carrying a debt load in excess of $70 billion, sold $3.5 billion of bonds in March, raising much-needed cash to thwart a looming cash crunch.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street watchdog FINRA said on Monday it is lifting the hold it had put on some cases involving investors who lost money in closed-end Puerto Rico bond funds after expanding its pool of arbitrators available to hear the cases. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said on Monday there are currently about 700 eligible arbitrators on its roster who have agreed to serve in Puerto Rico, where FINRA expects the majority of the roughly 209 cases it has received as of April 7 to be heard.

SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Boxer Felix "Tito" Trinidad, who grossed nearly $90 million during his championship career in the ring, is in economic ruin, just like his native Puerto Rico, according to court documents. The boxer and his father, Felix Trinidad, Sr., who trained him throughout his career, lost some $63 million through investments linked to Puerto Rico government bonds, papers filed on Thursday in San Juan Superior Court show. Trinidad and his father are seeking an injunction to halt San Juan-based Popular Securities, a brokerage arm of Puerto Rico's biggest bank, Banco Popular, from collecting a $2.9 million debt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prices of Puerto Rico's newly issued $3.5 billion debt sank in heavy trade late on Friday, hitting the lowest price ever at the end of a week when the indebted U.S. commonwealth hired additional teams of debt restructuring experts. Adding to concerns that the islands could be preparing to restructure its debt, Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank, the commonwealth's financing arm, on Thursday hired a third company with restructuring expertise as it tries to balance its budget while jump-starting a struggling economy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. municipal bond funds reported $273.8 million of net inflows in the week ended April 9, a sharp reversal from the $81.3 million in outflows the previous week, according to data released by Lipper on Thursday that showed investor appetite for debt with high yields continues to grow. High-yield municipal bond funds alone reported much higher net inflows of $323.5 million, marking the largest week in 2014 for money flowing into funds typically containing lower-rated debt.